POLITICAL NOTES: Helping Hand

No sooner had the Senate labor racketeering probe recessed one afternoon last week than workmen rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House to help...

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